Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
A human rights group that monitors the treatment of inmates at Russian penitentiaries says hundreds of men at a prison in the North Caucasus region of Adygea have agreed to be sent to fight in Russia’s war against Ukraine as a result of aggressive recruiting.
Siberian scientist Dmitry Kolker was arrested at a Novosibirsk cancer ward on suspicion of treason and whisked to Moscow. After one day, he was dead. Now his family and his lawyers are looking for answers.
Andrei Pozdeyev, a 19-year-old Russian conscript captured in Ukraine, has finally returned home. His family fears for the psychological impact the experience will have on him.
Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who was detained in St. Petersburg in April on accusations of discrediting the Russian armed forces in social-media posts about the war in Ukraine, has been transferred to a Siberian psychiatric hospital, her lawyer reported on July 2.
More than a dozen women in Russia's Republic of Buryatia have recorded a video statement urging the head of the Siberian region to recall their husbands from Ukraine where they are serving with the Russian armed forces.
Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin has been sentenced to 15 days in jail after being convicted of being disobedient to police, a charge that he and his supporters denied.
A Russian court in Siberia has sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to six years in prison amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group, which has been banned in the country since 2017.
The Russian dental industry is almost entirely dependent on European and U.S. imports of equipment and materials. Now, facing a virtually frozen supply chain, dentists are scrambling to weigh the alternatives of potentially inferior treatments for patients -- and having to raise prices.
The trial of a former correspondent for RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities project over social media posts he made saying Russian forces attacked civilian infrastructure in Ukraine has begun in Siberia.
The prosecutor at a high-profile trial in Siberia has asked a court to sentence LGBT activist and artist Yulia Tsvetkova to three years and two months in prison for drawings and other artwork depicting women's bodies that she posted online.
Several more Jehovah’s Witnesses have been handed prison terms on extremism charges in Siberia amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group, which has been banned in Russia since 2017.
Speaking out against the war on Ukraine is a dangerous business in Russia, and the state is using all its powers to silence dissenting voices. RFE/RL has spoken to some Russians who, despite the risks, refused to stay silent.
Russian natural resource companies are experiencing a decline in exports due to Western sanctions, with some companies saying they may need to cut workers, according to a report by the company's central bank.
Police in Moscow have searched the homes of several journalists and activists who have openly protested Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Two Russian lawmakers in the Far Eastern region of Primorye Krai have been thrown out of the Communist Party's faction in the regional parliament after they called on President Vladimir Putin to withdraw all troops from Ukraine, in what was a rare display of political protest in Russia.
The Russian government has begun easing limits on pollutants that can be released into the aquifer of Siberia's unique Lake Baikal, which holds 20 percent of the world's freshwater, saying Western sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine have scuttled the previous cleanup plan.
In a rare display of political protest in Russia, a group of lawmakers representing the Communist Party in the Far Eastern region of Primorye have called on President Vladimir Putin to stop military operations in Ukraine and withdraw all troops from the country.
A court in Moscow has issued additional arrest warrants for several close associates of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, this time on charges of creating an extremist group.
Police in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk have broken into the apartment of a former associate of jailed opposition activist Aleksei Navalny and searched the home, the former Navalny associate told RFE/RL.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on regional officials to act quickly in battling forest fires amid a series of blazes in Siberia and the Urals that have killed 16 people in recent weeks, raising fears that this season may be even worse than last year, the worst on record.
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